Album of newscuttings, ephemera and photographs compiled by Thomas Bryce Cooper, 1898-1925, 1935

MLMSS 4946/Box 1X

fonds

1898-1925, 1935

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs, Ephemera

918404

1 outsize box of textual material and photographs

Thomas Bryce Cooper age 9, left Greenock in 1879 by sailing ship and arrived in Australia. He was educated principally at Fort Street Public School and later was employed as a contractor and after 5 years graduated into the service of Messrs Sulman and Power a leading architectural firm. He left there to work at the Government Architect's Branch and subsequently to the Public Works Department where, after gaining experiencce in all Branches of administration and acting as Secretary to many successive Ministers of the Crown, he eventually became Under Secretary and Permanent Head. In that position he was in close touch with the affairs of the Water Board, more particulary as Chairman of the Committee of Engineers. He was then selected by the then Government to take up the office of President of the Board upon its reconstitution in March 1925 until his retirement on the 29th April 1935.

Reference:
Retirement of T.B. Cooper Esq., The Regulator, Vol. 2, no. 66 (1935): 10-11

The album was compiled by Thomas Bryce Cooper while he travelled as Secretary with various Ministers of Public Works and Railways during the period 1894 to 1906. It features invitations to official openings and newscuttings of the Ministerial visits to various towns.
It also contains newscuttings concerning the Water Board in 1925 and a copy of the journal `The Regulator' which has a notice of his retirement.